Hi All It was about time to take some photos of some of my stoves, so here's a short presentation of one of them. The 516 was a two burner household stove with seperate tanks for each burner. I'm not sure when it was introduced, but a guess would be in the last half of the 1930s. It appears to dissapear from the line-up in 1954. Probably replaced by the 535. When introduced there were three variations. /1 This was with a black painted (jappaned) frame and polished brass tanks. /2 This was with a dull nickelled frame and chromed tanks (I'm sure it was still nickel). /3 The final version was with a green enamelled frame and chromed tanks. The /1 version seems to have been dropped by the early 1940s and the /3 version didn't make it into the 1950s. Here is a photo of the front of the stove. A photo from the side. One from the top. The left hand tank. The right hand tank. Unfortunately none with it lit, but it's ready to go.
Way to go Nils! Very exemplary presentation. This is how stoves should be presented at the Stove reference gallery. And it is a nice bunch of stoves you show (This and the 535's in the other post). I like this one best. I just can't resist chrome or nickel plating. The more, the better... Christer
Hi Nils and everybody else! Is it only me who saw this: On the first tank it says AD27 and on the other tank it says AD15.................. Intressting indeed! Best Regards, Magnus Thilander
No, your not the only one. To me it reinforces the thoery that the number refers to a machine or tool. The tanks are not the same so must have been made in different machines.
Ditto. I noticed the different numbers too, but it was just what I'd expect. I have always assumed that it is a regular tooling number or similar. Nothing special...
Hi, Check out this 1930 Primus /Con Catalogue for the Primus 514, 516 and 524 ranges: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/9602 Best Regards, Kerophile.
